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1 Peso Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Rosario |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Value | 1 Peso Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue-black with an ornate guilloche border bearing repeated 'UNO' lettering along the top and bottom margins. At centre, a rural vignette shows a figure watering horses at a trough, with an additional horse and attendant to the right; a large rhea (ñandú) stands in the lower left corner. The bank title 'EL BANCO ARGENTINO' arcs across the upper portion in bold letterpress, with the denomination 'UN PESO' stated in the central text area alongside the place of issue 'Rosario' and a manuscript date line, and the numeral '1' appears in ornate cartouches at left and right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark grey-black and divided into three large lathe-work medallions of dense guilloche engine-turning, the central one carrying a bold numeral '1' in intaglio script, flanked by two matching circular guilloche panels each bearing the numeral '1'. The inscriptions 'EL BANCO' and 'ARGENTINO' appear in curved letterpress above and below the central medallion respectively, while the two outer panels display the numeral '1' at their outer edges. The printer's imprint runs in fine type along the lower margin. |
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El Banco Argentino was one of several provincial commercial banks operating in Argentina before the Banco Nacional absorbed or displaced most of them in the 1870s and 1880s. This note denominates in pesos plata boliviana, a unit tied to the Bolivian silver peso that circulated widely in the interior provinces — Rosario's commercial position along the Paraná made such cross-border monetary conventions entirely practical rather than eccentric.
ABNC printed the full series from New York, a routine arrangement for South American provincial banks of the period that lacked domestic security printing infrastructure. The PS prefix in the Pick catalog signals provincial or private issue status, and this entire Banco Argentino series remains thinly documented in surviving form.